A SHOCKED sheriff yesterday called for three Army leaders to be prosecuted over the drowning of a teenage cadet.

But the Crown Office last night dashed hopes of further charges being brought after the death of Kaylee McIntosh.

Kaylee, 14, died after a training exercise on Loch Carnan in South Uist in the Outer Hebrides turned to tragedy in August 2007.

She became trapped under a capsized speedboat and was forgotten about.

She was unable to free herself as the adult lifejacket she was wearing pinned her under the boat and made it harder for her to escape.

When a headcount of survivors was carried out, no one noticed Kaylee was missing and by the time she was found it was too late.

Major George McCallum

Yesterday, retired major George McCallum was fined £5000 after he admitted health and safety lapses.

But passing sentence, Inverness Sheriff William Taylor QC made it clear he felt McCallum shouldn’t be the lone scapegoat.

Sheriff Taylor launched a scathing attack on the organisation of the expedition, which he slammed as “shambolic”.

And he said that the prosecution of 52-year-old McCallum, of Peterhead, should not be the end of the repercussions.

He said: “Mr McCallum was just one cog in a much larger wheel and the activities involved others as well as him. It is my hope matters will not end here today.”

Colonel David Taylor

The sheriff took the unusual step of naming three other individuals behind the bungled outing in extreme weather on the sea loch.

They were Colonel David Taylor, Major David Adams and Sergeant Vicky Lorimer, an instructor who escaped from under the boat but, in her panic, forgot to tell anyone Kaylee was trapped.

Vicky Lorimer

Sheriff Taylor said it was “astonishing” that Lorimer, then 21, did not tell anyone that Kaylee was still in the water for 90 minutes.

A fatal accident inquiry heard Lorimer had promised Kaylee she would come back for her after she decided to swim ashore.

The sheriff said: “That failure demonstrated that at that time, the activities were in an absolutely shambolic condition.”

Captain David Adams

Last night Kaylee’s distraught parents, Derek and Lesley McIntosh, of Fyvie, Aberdeenshire, backed his call for more prosecutions.

The couple said: “We would like to thank Sheriff Taylor for making us feel he is as outraged as us regarding what happened to Kaylee.”

But a Crown Office spokesman said: “Counsel have concluded that on the available evidence there is insufficient evidence to prosecute any others involved in the death.”

Glen Millar, a partner at the family’s solicitors Thompsons, said: “Crown Counsel may well have concluded that there is insufficient evidence to prosecute any others involved in Kaylee’s death.

“Setting aside that it is regrettable in the extreme that it has taken over five years to reach that view, Crown Counsel is in a minority of one when it comes to assessment of the evidence and is at odds in that respect with sheriffs, senior counsel, Derek and Lesley McIntosh’s legal team as well as Derek and Lesley themselves.

“My instructions remain to write to the Lord Advocate and no doubt he will provide a fuller explanation of the position.”